Why do casual players seem entitled to cosmetic items added in game?

[MrJPtheAssassin]

The price will eventually go down.
I wish people complained about the lack of effort to improve gameplay and their old a** stale formula with the same fervor.

One can hope, maybe when the japanese officeworkers who have 1.5 hours per week to play speak up.

That is highly unlikely as time goes on. In fact, I see the price skyrocketing pass what it is now bc this content will die off. The ppl who is farming the fight now will stop since the exp of pfing this fight is a nightmare and as soon as they get everything they want they will completely stop. When that happens it will get harder and harder to find 24 players to even do the fight and less ppl will do it. With less ppl doing it means there will be fewer hairstyles gotten(remember the hairstyle doesn't drop 100% of the time, its a rare drop and to buy it with tokens you have to clear the fight 46 times!) With fewer hairstyles going around the ppl do get it will raise the price since there are only a few on the MB. So no the price will not eventually go down, it will most likely stay high or even go higher as time goes on.

[AllenThyl]

I took two weeks off work (chance) when DT arrived. Played XIV all day most days. My crafters still aren't levelled. I completely missed out on savage being too late. I can't afford crafted gear. (I spend my gil on nothing, not glam, not minions, not mounts) I don't every seem to have a job geared when there is an opportunity to try high end with people I meet.(Week 1 gear is not a fun way to try high end for the first time)

- Every day, the game gives you 6 leve allowances, which you can use to do crafter / gatherer leves for substantial amount of xp. You get xp for all leves of ARR to EW as long as the class in question is below 90. I overlevelled all my crafters just by doing every leve once for the achievements, i.e. I reached the cutoff level before I finished handing in all the leves of the previous expansion. For 90+, the current expansion leves have to be done, but again, they are substantial xp.
- Your grand company allows you to hand in one item per crafter class per day for 25%. If it is HQ, this amount is doubled. If the item has a daily bonus, the amount is further doubled, meaning you can up to a level per day per class for turning in a single item. Don't even have to craft it yourself, just buy the cheapest one you can find on the MB.
- Every week, you have 12 custom delivery allowances, which again provide a substantial xp reward for turning in a total of 12 items, on top of a shower of scrip. Which you can either use yourself, or buy materia / materials to sell on the MB. Time investment per week is like 20 minutes max, and you get the full amount of xp for high level jobs even when turning in low level custom deliveries.
- If you want to powerlevel, collectables are the way to go. They also provide scrip which you can either use yourself or turn into money.

Quite frankly, this is all becoming the "I am a dad of 6 working 15 hours a day"-memes from the Diablo 4 launch. Plethora of people powerlevel all their gatherers / crafters to max on launch day in a few hours before the sun sets, and you can't do it with all the even more time efficient methods the game has over a period of weeks?

I know exactly what's going on, add-ons and mods. If your using these you get an exponential advantage.

You know nothing. And that is the whole problem here. Yes, there are mods, yes, the amount of people that use them are very likely higher than it should be. But the problem you describe here are unbelievably ridiculous. This is "not even playing the game" level, it's simply weaponized incompetence. In the time it took you to write all your quite lengthy posts, you could have looked up some resources online and fixed all your issues by now.

[MrJPtheAssassin]

All they had to do was make the fight scale based on player count like they did for BA, CLL, DR, Dalriada, and DRS. Oh, and Variant Dungeons (The health of enemies in there scales linearly based on how many party members you have)

Scaling doesn't really fix the body checks. All the stuff you listed I believe has very few mechs that are body checks. This fight has one that I heard about that is pretty major and it's the towers in P2. They would also have to lower the number of players required for the checks along with scaling Cloud of darkness hp.

[EmeraldSerenade]

Because Final Fantasy has drastically (I can't stress the word "Drastically" enough) lagged behind modern games regarding Character Customization, and people want haircuts.

[MrJPtheAssassin]

Because Final Fantasy has drastically (I can't stress the word "Drastically" enough) lagged behind modern games regarding Character Customization, and people want haircuts.

Love they went through so much work to update character models this expac but didn't even think about at least adding few new options to character customization. We still have the same old 3 to 4 faces for each race with very few choices to change said face(mouth, nose, eyes, etc).

[DynnDiablos]

The disdain for "casuals' always amuses me because the success of FFXIV is because of us - period. Without us logging in, enjoying our houses, GPOSING, running venues, and contributing our sub, you extreme raiders would have NADA, ZERO, ZILCH. And now? With the anemic casual content, and stuff we'd love to do being pushed back further into later patches, and SE going all in on hardcore content for the 2% of the game population, we are starting to not care and bounce. Let's see how long 14 sustains when the playerbase you so loathe, all says...you know what? We're done.

[Kaurhz]

The price will eventually go down.
I wish people complained about the lack of effort to improve gameplay and their old a** stale formula with the same fervor.

One can hope, maybe when the japanese officeworkers who have 1.5 hours per week to play speak up.

It's actually far more logical for the price to increase. The bonus for first time clears is only for the first time, so not every instance will be as many demimateria, and with the content having the novelty factor it currently does, this will be the time where the supply will likely be at the greatest. Once the novelty factor has wore off then the content will not be ran as much, and equally as more players clear, which they are -- Then there will be far, far less bonus Demimateria going around, thus eventually people will need to actually farm for the hairstyle and not have it indirectly guaranteed for being in an instance with entirely new people. Yesterday the price of hairstyle was around 18M, now it has gone back up again to 25M.

It will likely be that it has some ups and downs between now and just after new years, then once we get closer to 7.2 it will spike in price. It's more likely that the price trajectory will align more with the Aidoneus minion (Which was originally 25M on-content, now spiking up to 50M because very select few do the content that rewards it.. This is the far more likely instance, versus crafting which the supply of the item will always match the demand pretty well.

The disdain for "casuals' always amuses me because the success of FFXIV is because of us - period. Without us logging in, enjoying our houses, GPOSING, running venues, and contributing our sub, you extreme raiders would have NADA, ZERO, ZILCH. And now? With the anemic casual content, and stuff we'd love to do being pushed back further into later patches, and SE going all in on hardcore content for the 2% of the game population, we are starting to not care and bounce. Let's see how long 14 sustains when the playerbase you so loathe, all says...you know what? We're done.

If I am honest, this situation has exposed and put an absolute glaring light on how bad the community actually can be sometimes.

[Sheriyana]

Because Final Fantasy has drastically (I can't stress the word "Drastically" enough) lagged behind modern games regarding Character Customization, and people want haircuts.

I'm still salty from when they stopped unlocking every new haircut immediately on patch launch and started hiding them behind content.

[Gurgeh]

- Every day, the game gives you 6 leve allowances, which you can use to do crafter / gatherer leves for substantial amount of xp. You get xp for all leves of ARR to EW as long as the class in question is below 90. I overle novelled all my crafters just by doing every leve once for the achievements, i.e. I reached the cutoff level before I finished handing in all the leves of the previous expansion. For 90+, the current expansion leves have to be done, but again, they are substantial xp.
- Your grand company allows you to hand in one item per crafter class per day for 25%. If it is HQ, this amount is doubled. If the item has a daily bonus, the amount is further doubled, meaning you can up to a level per day per class for turning in a single item. Don\\'t even have to craft it yourself, just buy the cheapest one you can find on the MB.
- Every week, you have 12 custom delivery allowances, which again provide a substantial xp reward for turning in a total of 12 items, on top of a shower of scrip. Which you can either use yourself, or buy materia / materials to sell on the MB. Time investment per week is like 20 minutes max, and you get the full amount of xp for high level jobs even when turning in low level custom deliveries.
- If you want to powerlevel, collectables are the way to go. They also provide scrip which you can either use yourself or turn into money.

Quite frankly, this is all becoming the "I am a dad of 6 working 15 hours a day"-memes from the Diablo 4 launch. Plethora of people powerlevel all their gatherers / crafters to max on launch day in a few hours before the sun sets, and you can\\'t do it with all the even more time efficient methods the game has over a period of weeks?



You know nothing. And that is the whole problem here. Yes, there are mods, yes, the amount of people that use them are very likely higher than it should be. But the problem you describe here are unbelievably ridiculous. This is "not even playing the game" level, it\\'s simply weaponized incompetence. In the time it took you to write all your quite lengthy posts, you could have looked up some resources online and fixed all your issues by now.

I\\'ve been playing the game for three years to compete ShB in time for EW. Played everyday then and since until unsubbed about two months ago. Resubbed a month ago.

But I dint do Reddit and stuff not interested. I just play the game in front of me do the things I enjoy. Dint do the things I dint. I like custom deliveries. I dint like having to go off and gather for a different item each day. It actually takes quite a while, because I\\'m also getting interrupted for rouls. I need a some node I keep missing or something. I don\\'t enjoy gathering or crafting, so I do it while I\\'m writing other stuff. That means I usually get to the end of a day and ask the stuff I\\'ve gathered is useless. So I dint do the GC crafted deliveries before you can\\'t \\'for then in\\' progress not completed that day is wasted. Then as for leves and collectibles, again by the time I\\'ve gathered stuff custom deliveries had leveled me up and the XP isn\\'t worth it.

End of the day, playing the casual roul game doesn\\'t get you \\'nearly\\' enough Gil for raid gear. (I do all the rouls except MSQ)
Playing the casual game doesn\\'t get you raid gear in time.
I dint enjoy gathering and crafting. And I\\'m not doing it.
I don\\'t mind farming Gil but it\\'s needs to be through playing the battle game and a mix of battle content. And it had to be compatible with not using add-ons to tell you what did is valuable (so maps is out. Also maps is tedious. Iits not challenging and it\\'s only the same recent expansion maps that net much. Also you can\\'t just queue maps),

Your right Im incompetent. But I\\'ve played the game every day for 4 years several hours a day and the circles I move in are sprouts, who knows even less than me.
The whole business of tome grear in Endwalker was a total shock you play for three years.. then... what is all this coin business? And gear enhancing? I didn\\'t do the first alliance for 9 months because I didn\\'t think it mattered. Same for normals. I didn\\'t realise is was how you were supposed to gear. Gear = tomes. Like for the past Fing 3 years.
I dint do Reddit. Everyone I know is sprouts.

Hey it\\'s either with changing or it\\'s not. If it doesn\\'t work for me, I dint have to play.

[AmiableApkallu]

Why do casual players seem entitled to cosmetic items added in game?

The way I see it, it's less about being "entitled" and more about being "impatient."

Gotta do weeklies within 24 hours of the reset. Gotta do content within 24 hours of the patch dropping. Everyone's gotta be the flower smelling champion. And then people complain that there's nothing to do, that everything's dead. Pity the poor souls who join in ShB or EW, and might actually want to spend time working through what the previous expansions had to offer, rather than having to drop everything to play the current end-game before the crowds move on.

But I digress. If the chaotic alliance raid can be run with unrestricted parties in future expansions, then… the choice is simple — or, well, ought to be simple: put the work/gil in now, and get the rewards now; or wait until the content becomes easier, and get the rewards then.